Maybe Joe (Manchin) is an Obama type of Democrat, you know, the guy who said, "We're just taking out a credit card from the Bank of China, essentially. We're borrowing that money. And we've added $4 trillion worth of debt since George Bush took office. Keep in mind, just to give you some perspective, the first 42 presidents amassed $5 trillion worth of debt." - Senator Barack Obama in Columbus, OH on June 13th, 2008.
The national debt on September 30, 2008 was $10,024,724,896,912.49 so when Obama said that it was something even less.
I'm pretty sure that's the same guy who also said, “Driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars to $9 trillion is irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”
The national debt now is over $28 trillion and you can look at it going up more than a million dollars a minute on a debt meter. So what I don't get is how for Democrats except for Manchin and maybe one other, the national debt is less of a problem now that it's almost tripled than it was when Obama fretted about it?
Manchin is one of the few Democrats who are making any sense. With the rest of them, it's hard to tell if they are trying to destroy the country on purpose or if they really are this clueless about how things work and it's even harder to know which of those options is actually more dangerous to America. History books will write about Manchin with glowing praise, lauding him for holding the line on the debt that threatened to crush America the same way Charles "The Hammer" Martel is exalted by history for holding the line against the Muslims who would have crushed Europe and Christendom.
Of course, that analogy doesn't bode well for us since the Muslims eventually did get into Europe en masse, primarily by destroying their own countries so they'd have a good excuse to flee them and claim asylum. Democrats will similarly destroy their own country with crime and covid, open borders and high inflation so they can have their excuse to jack up the national debt to unsustainable levels in response to the problems they themselves caused.